Which email should I use? #1792

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Hi,

You know we have at least 2 different email in Codeberg.

1- noreply codeberg email
2- personal email

I'm curious. Which one I should use? What perks they provide?

If you use your personal email, it becomes public and will be used to sign your commits. The only perks to that are that it'll be easier for somebody to contact you about your work, and if you use more Git services than just Codeberg, you can share the same email address on all of them to ensure that your accounts link in the commit histories correctly (you obviously can't use your noreply Codeberg address to sign commits outside of Codeberg).

The downside is that you might care about your personal email enough to not want it public. Then you can change the settings so that you only get notifications onto it and that the noreply address is used for commits.

If you use your personal or work email, it becomes public so everyone can look your email (whatever either personal or work email), and used in your commits, either in git or in codeberg. However, if you just use codeberg to host your code (code projects, not or mini-projects that you can host at CodePen) or not want to show your personal/work email, its best to use the noreply codeberg address. Personally, i use the noreply codeberg email. Either public or private, the choice is open. For private emails, i recommended to use the built-in noreply codeberg email, however, for public emails, i recommended to use your personal (or work) email. Its that!